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Teeqoz on 26 February 2015
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RolStoppable said:
vivster said:
padib said:
As much as I agree with the sentiment of OP, I think the metric is flawed because it's possible that the confused buyers simply refused to buy a U thinking it was purely an add-on.

This. OP got it backwards. If it was like he described the sales would be higher and not lower.

People simply didn't buy Wii U because they thought it would just be an addon.

I am sorry to break it to you two Nintendo lovers, but that line of logic doesn't work when it's brought to its end.

Assumption: Wii U doesn't sell because it's thought of to be just the Gamepad and not a new console.
The catch: In this case people aren't buying something that they assume to cost $100 at most, and they aren't buying it because they have no interest in it. Now if you explain to them that it's actually a $300 product, do you think that's going to raise the chances that they are going to bite?
The conclusion: Wii U doesn't sell because people don't want it. Change the name, same result.


The fun part about this is that I have a friend that was interested in the Wii U when he thought it was an add on, but when he found out it was a standalone console he was like "nope".